Music Appreciation Test #3

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Key

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relationship of tones w/ a common center or tonic

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Diatonic

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Melody or harmony built from the seven tones of a major or minor scale

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Triad

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Common chord; consisting of three pitches built on alternate tones of the scale

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Dominant

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Fifth scale step

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Subdominant

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Fourth scale step

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Modulation

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Changing from one key to another

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Collegium Musicum

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Association of amateur musicians; popular in Baroque era

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Monody

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Solo singers and instrumental accompaniment; Established in Baroque era

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Figured Bass

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Independent bass line that often includes numerals indicating the harmony to play; Baroque era

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Basso Continuo

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"Continuous Bass"

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Equal Temperment

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Tuning systembased on the division of the octave into twelve equal half steps; used today

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Doctrine of the Affections

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Baroque doctrine of the union of text and music

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Accompagnato

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Accompanied

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Aria

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Lyric song for solo voice w/ orchestral accomp; opera

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Da Capo Aria

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Lyric song in ternary, or A-B-A form; common in operas, cantatas, and oratorios

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Overture

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Introductory movement

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Librettist

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Prepares text or script of an opera

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Libretto

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Text, or script of an opera

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Ostinato

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Short melodic rythmic or harmonic pattern repeated throughout a work

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Opera Seria

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Tragic Italian opera

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Cantata

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Based on lyric or dramatic poetic narrative; generally consists of several movements

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Chorale

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Hymm of the German Luthern Church

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Chorale Prelude

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Short Baroque organ piece in which a traditional chorale melody is embellished

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Oratorio

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Similar to opera but w/o scenery, costumes, or action

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Ostinato

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Short melodic rythmic or harmonic pattern repeated throughout a work

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Opera Seria

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Tragic Italian opera

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Cantata

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Based on lyric or dramatic poetic narrative; generally consists of several movements

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How were chords identified in the Baroque era?

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Roman Numerals

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Tonic

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1st degree or Home note

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Ternary

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A-B-A or three-part form

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What years were included in the Baroque era?

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1600-1750

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Tonality

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Based on major or minor scale

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Dominant Chord

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Chord built on the fifth step of a scale

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Tonic Chord

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Chord built on the first step of a scale

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Word Painting

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Musical pictorialization of words from the text

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Opera

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Music drama; vocal and instrumental music w/ poetry and drama, acting, scenery, and costumes

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Florentine Camerata

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Florentine writers, artists, & musicians; Aristocrats aimed at ressurecting art of ancient Greece

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Recitative

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Solo vocal; Disjunct style; found in operas, cantatas, and oratorios

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Secco

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Recitative singing style that features a sparce accomp. and moves w great freedom

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Ritornello

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Short, recurring inst passage found in the aria and the Baroque concerto

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empfindsamkeit

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centimental or sensitive style

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What book did Fillipe Rameau write?

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Treaties on Harmony

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Early operas were based on what?

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Greek Mythology

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Who composed the late operas?

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Handel

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Greatest composer in England

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Purcell

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Fuge

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Polyphonic composition based on imitation

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What genre is Barbara Strozzi's "Begli occhi" from?

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Italian secular cantata

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Who wrote chorales?

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Martin Luther

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Well-Tempered Clavier

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Bach; collection of preludes and fugues issued in two volumes

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Most famous oratorio

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Handels Messiah

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Oratorio

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Similar to opera but w/o scenery, costumes, or action

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Most famous passage from Handels Messiah

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Alleluah

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Instruments were less important than vocals in the Baroque era. (T/F)

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False; they were just as important

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Harpsichord

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Baroque keyboard inst in which the strings are plucked by quills

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The piano was not important in the Baroque era. (T/F)

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True

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Sonata da Chiesa

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Church performance; four movements; slow-fast-slow-fast

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Sonata da Camera

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Baroque chamber sonata; a suite of stylized dances

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Trio Sonata

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Baroque chamber sonata; requires four players to perform; Two melody lines and the basso continuo

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Concerto Grosso

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Based on opposition between small group of solo inst and the orchestra

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Solo Concerto

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Solo inst and an accompanying inst group

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Who was the most prolific concerto writer?

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Antonio Vivaldi

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What genre was water music written?

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Dance suite

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Who wrote the six Brandenburg concertos?

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Handel

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Italian Overture

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Three sections; fast-slow-fast

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The overture was the precusor to the symphony. (T/F)

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True

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Fuge

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Polyphonic; one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint

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Beggars Opera

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By John Gay; 1728; satirical play w/ folk songs and popular tunes

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

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Reformer of 18th cent opera; wrote Orpheus and Eurydice; wrote Alceste